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Apple Sues OpenAI, Accusing It of Stealing Company Secrets

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/technology/apple-openai-lawsuit.html
63•jbegley•1h ago

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ViktorRay•28m ago
“Good artists copy, great artists steal” - Steve Jobs

Looks like the Apple..

puts on sunglasses

Didn’t fall far from the tree.

YEAHHHHHHHHH

visarga•17m ago
Can't stand NYT ever since they subpoenaed for millions of chat logs from OpenAI, trashing user privacy for their own goals on a massive scale.
eddyfromtheblok•12m ago
agree. more HN stories here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48865019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48864887
wilsonnb3•12m ago
What user privacy? There would be no chat logs to subpoena if users had privacy.
threetonesun•6m ago
What were their "own goals", exactly? Why did you ever assume your chat logs were private on OpenAI?
casion•11m ago
The stealing company stole from someone!?

Sarcasm aside, I'm genuinely unsure what companies expect. These products do not work without considerable misappropriation of content. The consumers are willing to overlook ethical boundaries when it's someone else's IP being illicitly acquired and abused, but gasp when it's their own.

apparent•11m ago
>In its lawsuit Friday, Apple accused Tang Tan, OpenAI’s chief hardware officer and a former Apple executive, of coaching his hires from Apple on how to evade Apple’s security processes for departing employees.

The word "coaching" is very malleable, and could refer to perfectly legal conduct, or conduct that is illegal, unethical, or both. How would an OpenAI employee know what Apple's security processes for departing employees are? One would assume he was told by previously-departed Apple employees. Would they have been forbidden to disclose information about the outgoing process? I would think so, given how careful Apple is about these things.

> Apple accused another former employee, Chang Liu, of using a former colleague’s Apple-owned laptop to access and download technical documents while working at OpenAI. Mr. Liu told that Apple employee what information about unannounced products she should study before job interviews, Apple said.

I would be very hesitant to assist a former colleague who is still at Apple in this way. Apple is well known for using deliberate leaks to smoke out leakers, and it would be easy for them to get a current/loyal employee to go through the interview process at a competitor for the purpose of finding out if the competitor is trying to get Apple employees to act unethically/illegally.

wilsonnb3•8m ago
> How would an OpenAI employee know what Apple's security processes for departing employees are?

The openAI employee in question is also a former Apple employee.

BeetleB•7m ago
> How would an OpenAI employee know what Apple's security processes for departing employees are?

Either by being a former Apple employee, or polling former Apple employees.

madeofpalk•5m ago
> After his own departure, Mr. Tan improperly retained or obtained an internal Apple managers’ document marked “Need to Know” that describes security procedures for employee departures. Messages left on Apple-issued work devices show that Mr. Tan and his OpenAI colleagues have been sharing this document with new hires before they give notice to Apple of their departures, previewing Apple’s security protocols.

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1•iamnothere•35s ago•0 comments

Apple sues OpenAI/io for stealing trade secrets

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jxHwYEn2bxsWO3ceHAMKwdWQ11Ijy_-e/view
2•shay_ker•6m ago•0 comments

Netflix reportedly among parties in talks to buy Letterboxd

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/10/letterboxd-netflix-sales-talks
3•cdrnsf•11m ago•0 comments

Determinisitc MIDI Synthesizer

https://monictheory.com
1•song_synth•12m ago•0 comments

Together AI, Apps Flyer lead list of Top dynamic companies for Q3 2026

https://greenflagdigital.com/gfd-tech-100-ranking/
1•josephjrobison•14m ago•0 comments

Play Neverball in the Browser

https://play.neverball.org/
1•toilet•16m ago•0 comments

What can you build using this? https://github.com/pixel-1998/axis-protocol

https://github.com/pixel-1998/axis-protocol
1•pixel-1998•17m ago•0 comments

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https://www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/thrust_ai_powered_software_archaeology/
1•msephton•17m ago•0 comments

Lucia Auth

https://lucia-auth.com/
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Man partly sucked out of broken window on flight pulled back by passengers

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2•petethomas•19m ago•1 comments

Linux 7.3 Enabling Second Graphics Pipe for Modern AMD APUs

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1•rbanffy•24m ago•0 comments

The biggest bombshells from Apple's trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI

https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-sues-openai-trade-secret-theft-2026-7
3•uberdru•25m ago•0 comments

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Claude Savings with context caching awareness

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Spiel: Chrome extension that reads articles/PDFs aloud with local TTS

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Tool to use signal without a smartphone

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https://www.whoi.edu/press-room/news-release/quest-images/
1•bookofjoe•35m ago•0 comments

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfaZZPjA3g0
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5•Gooblebrai•37m ago•0 comments

Academics building open‑source agents for academic and research work

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I made a Pirate MMO with Fable and the game is only 5MB

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7•m0dE•42m ago•3 comments

Every edge deserves two good loops

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Zeal 8-Bit Computer

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1•elsadek•50m ago•0 comments

The Descent to C (2013)

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/cdescent/
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The Decline of Deviance 2

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